Its a decent card for beast hunters. Easily paired with Overwhelm to basically destroy two minions, and for hunter that's a major plus. Even if there's no card to immediately proct the spellburst, its basically a soft taunt on turn 4, which is decent.
Yes rotnest drake is a better card. But that's a card in dragon decks. This one does a very similar thing, but in any deck that plays reasonable amounts of spells in it. Which in most cases is nearly everything thats not dragon hunter.
its Devilsaur Egg, and I'm very happy. Been trying to make deathrattle hunter work in standard so this goes straight in it. Better than serpent egg for sure, since hunter doesn't have any way to pop the egg. This one doesn't need popping and that's a major plus in hunter.
With Carrion Studies, this can get out on 2, and straight into Teron Gorefiend on 3. Just a good deathrattle card for any occasion.
6 mana 5/7 Taunt is actually not bad. I remember people playing Dark Arakkoa even in decks without C'Thun because it was just that good at the time. Deathrattle decks might be able to make good use of it.
Maybe lore aficionados can clarify what exactly is this thing. Looks like cat-bird-deer thing that came straight from the last guardian.
Its powercreep on Alleycat, and it sports a very powerful effect. Even if it doesnt, alleycat has seen play for ages, so there's no reason to expect this not to.
If you can buff this big enough it can even finish the game with Tundra Rhino, but that's a long shot.
These effects are generally not very good since it's easy to get rid of them. Burgly Bully was only played in Exodia Paladin to refresh the Hero Power. I don't imagine this seeing play.
Remember Small-Time Buccaneer? He used to have 2 Health, and was then nerfed. This is pre-nerf Small-Time Buccaneer that's easier for most decks to activate. It not being a Pirate is a small price to pay. Really good card.
It's quite unlikely that it will see play, but 0 mana minions are quite rare in the game, so it's always kinda cool in a weird way to see one. We just need our 0 mana 1/1 Elemental, Totem, Dragon, and Pirate now and we'll have a full set.
What really made this card shit is not that its a bad card, but it features in a class that neither needs card draw or a stealth minion. Yes, this can be a good card with Embiggen and Survival of the Fittest, but in the former means you cant use this with guardian animals and the latter is so late in the game a stealth minion has no value.
Like, why wasn't this card a neutral or at least shared with hunter, so if nothing else, hunter will always run this because it somewhat guarantees 2 cards. As it stands, there's just very little reason for druid to want this card, especially since there's plenty other cards that at very least would have either rush, taunt, or the elusive tag, so they dont just die to aggro or priest.
It's slow to have the Deathrattle occur naturally, although it's really good to cheat out, and it's good for Deathrattle activators where you can quickly get a bunch of 7-Cost minions on the board.
New Hunter Minion - Krolusk Barkstripper
Its a decent card for beast hunters. Easily paired with Overwhelm to basically destroy two minions, and for hunter that's a major plus. Even if there's no card to immediately proct the spellburst, its basically a soft taunt on turn 4, which is decent.
Yes rotnest drake is a better card. But that's a card in dragon decks. This one does a very similar thing, but in any deck that plays reasonable amounts of spells in it. Which in most cases is nearly everything thats not dragon hunter.
New Hunter Minion - Bloated Python
its Devilsaur Egg, and I'm very happy. Been trying to make deathrattle hunter work in standard so this goes straight in it. Better than serpent egg for sure, since hunter doesn't have any way to pop the egg. This one doesn't need popping and that's a major plus in hunter.
With Carrion Studies, this can get out on 2, and straight into Teron Gorefiend on 3. Just a good deathrattle card for any occasion.
New Neutral Minion - Sneaky Delinquent
This is our Class Card In Disguise. It's not good for anything else, but it is pretty good for Stealth Rogue.
New Neutral Minion - Smug Senior
6 mana 5/7 Taunt is actually not bad. I remember people playing Dark Arakkoa even in decks without C'Thun because it was just that good at the time. Deathrattle decks might be able to make good use of it.
New Hunter Minion - Wolpertinger
Maybe lore aficionados can clarify what exactly is this thing. Looks like cat-bird-deer thing that came straight from the last guardian.
Its powercreep on Alleycat, and it sports a very powerful effect. Even if it doesnt, alleycat has seen play for ages, so there's no reason to expect this not to.
If you can buff this big enough it can even finish the game with Tundra Rhino, but that's a long shot.
Judicious Junior
Get your sarcastic shit out of here.
New Neutral Minion - Ogremancer
These effects are generally not very good since it's easy to get rid of them. Burgly Bully was only played in Exodia Paladin to refresh the Hero Power. I don't imagine this seeing play.
New Neutral Minion - Intrepid Initiate
Remember Small-Time Buccaneer? He used to have 2 Health, and was then nerfed. This is pre-nerf Small-Time Buccaneer that's easier for most decks to activate. It not being a Pirate is a small price to pay. Really good card.
New Druid Minion - Gibberling
If you have multiple spells and want to flood your board then this card will be good.
There's a small chance in token druid, but its otherwise just filler material. Had it been a 1/2 at least it would've been just great. Too bad.
Tour Guide
Curves perfectly into Manafeeder Panthara.
Desk Imp
At what point are there enough 0-cost minions to build a Wild deck around them?
New Neutral Minion - Fishy Flyer
It's certainly amusing, and it's a way for every class to deal 4 damage. That said, I don't imagine it making waves in Constructed.
Divine Rager
Cursed Disciple was decent enough in Arena.
New Druid Spell - Partner Assignment
Its actually not a bad card, practically made for token druid, which unlike the other archetypes, dont run too much card draw or ramp.
Will only gives you beast, means its consistent if nothing else.
New Neutral Minion - Enchanted Cauldron
That face is nightmare material.
The effect is funny, but it's too random for it to be practical for competitive play.
New Neutral Minion - Divine Rager
I knew we would see this card someday. It's beautiful. 5 stars! Amazing.
New Paladin Spell - Blessing of Authority
Even though you can't use it for smork the stats makes it really good, and it's even better in minions that cannot attack that turn.
Firebrand
Excuse me? It's got vanilla stats and, when paired with a 1-drop spell on turn 4, it can easily kill two minions. "Mediocre" this is not.
New Neutral Minion - Lake Thresher
I'm still waiting for Cleave to become a keyword, and also Elusive for that matter.
This is going to be really good in Arena, but probably not in Constructed where it's too reliant on surviving a turn for it to be good.
Partner Assignment
Decent on turn 1 or turn 6.
New Neutral Minion - Desk Imp
It's quite unlikely that it will see play, but 0 mana minions are quite rare in the game, so it's always kinda cool in a weird way to see one. We just need our 0 mana 1/1 Elemental, Totem, Dragon, and Pirate now and we'll have a full set.
New Druid Minion - Twilight Runner
Guardian Animals fodder, little else.
What really made this card shit is not that its a bad card, but it features in a class that neither needs card draw or a stealth minion. Yes, this can be a good card with Embiggen and Survival of the Fittest, but in the former means you cant use this with guardian animals and the latter is so late in the game a stealth minion has no value.
Like, why wasn't this card a neutral or at least shared with hunter, so if nothing else, hunter will always run this because it somewhat guarantees 2 cards. As it stands, there's just very little reason for druid to want this card, especially since there's plenty other cards that at very least would have either rush, taunt, or the elusive tag, so they dont just die to aggro or priest.
New Neutral Minion - Crimson Hothead
Pretty decent card in any spell based deck, which they've been pushing this set. I'd say it has a pretty decent chance of seeing play.
New Neutral Minion - Plagued Protodrake
It's slow to have the Deathrattle occur naturally, although it's really good to cheat out, and it's good for Deathrattle activators where you can quickly get a bunch of 7-Cost minions on the board.
I remember that Anubisath Warbringer just played because it was good when it was drawn by Necrium Apothecary. I feel this might follow a similar fate.
New Paladin & Warrior Spell - Commencement
You could play this in a big minion version, but it looks terrible anyway haha.